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Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 10: Shared Services - Management of Salary Overpayments
Appropriation Accounts 2016
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (1 Feb 2018)

Seán Fleming: At the end of 2016.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 10: Shared Services - Management of Salary Overpayments
Appropriation Accounts 2016
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (1 Feb 2018)

Seán Fleming: To be fair to Ms Murphy-Fagan, she may, when sending us the note, put comparable figures with comparable figures. To an extent, the €4.6 million highlighted when the figures came out was only part of the picture. It relates only to overpayments the NSSO was processing.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 10: Shared Services - Management of Salary Overpayments
Appropriation Accounts 2016
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (1 Feb 2018)

Seán Fleming: In fact, the figure across the public service and Civil Service was approximately €7.5 million.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 10: Shared Services - Management of Salary Overpayments
Appropriation Accounts 2016
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (1 Feb 2018)

Seán Fleming: It is a substantially higher figure. The figures are all in now so the witnesses will be able to give us very soon a figure for 2017. I believe Ms Murphy-Fagan has already said she calculated the level of overpayments and the figures for the plans, and that she sent the details to each of the organisations. Does she have that figure?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 10: Shared Services - Management of Salary Overpayments
Appropriation Accounts 2016
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (1 Feb 2018)

Seán Fleming: But she does have it.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 10: Shared Services - Management of Salary Overpayments
Appropriation Accounts 2016
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (1 Feb 2018)

Seán Fleming: But she will be able to give us that figure.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 10: Shared Services - Management of Salary Overpayments
Appropriation Accounts 2016
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (1 Feb 2018)

Seán Fleming: All we will be talking about is the 124,000 people. We are fully conscious that the figure we are going to get excludes the HSE, which has 105,000 or 110,000 people. It excludes up to 90,000 Department of Education and Skills staff and it excludes the 30,000 to 40,000 in local authorities.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 10: Shared Services - Management of Salary Overpayments
Appropriation Accounts 2016
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (1 Feb 2018)

Seán Fleming: Could we have a breakdown of the overpayments by organisation? The NSSO must have it because it must report back. We are interested in determining which Department is the biggest source of the problem and whether that Department has a problem getting its stuff to the NSSO. I am sure the NSSO is on top of it but we have not go there today. This committee needs to drill down below the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 10: Shared Services - Management of Salary Overpayments
Appropriation Accounts 2016
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (1 Feb 2018)

Seán Fleming: Hold on. We cannot wait until 30 September.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 10: Shared Services - Management of Salary Overpayments
Appropriation Accounts 2016
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (1 Feb 2018)

Seán Fleming: I want to be given an estimate. Everyone gives an estimate, which is subject to verification, after the end of the year. I believe Ms Murphy-Fagan has said she has already sent information to the Departments. She is reasonably confident about what has been produced. I am sure she had a health warning on her statement and that it was not absolute. Could she just outline what her office...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 10: Shared Services - Management of Salary Overpayments
Appropriation Accounts 2016
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (1 Feb 2018)

Seán Fleming: Even though we have all these shared services, one has to dig back through the 50 or 60 Votes to find out the overpayments outstanding at the end of the year. Is that not what Ms Murphy-Fagan is saying?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 10: Shared Services - Management of Salary Overpayments
Appropriation Accounts 2016
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (1 Feb 2018)

Seán Fleming: Has anyone got the notes? If not, I might ask the liaison officer to tot up those figures for us.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 10: Shared Services - Management of Salary Overpayments
Appropriation Accounts 2016
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (1 Feb 2018)

Seán Fleming: For the end of 2016.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 10: Shared Services - Management of Salary Overpayments
Appropriation Accounts 2016
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (1 Feb 2018)

Seán Fleming: Do the witnesses see where I am coming from? We have only a bit of the picture.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 10: Shared Services - Management of Salary Overpayments
Appropriation Accounts 2016
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (1 Feb 2018)

Seán Fleming: The NSSO is an agent.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 10: Shared Services - Management of Salary Overpayments
Appropriation Accounts 2016
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (1 Feb 2018)

Seán Fleming: The €4.6 million overpayment that has been reported is the only one reported to the Comptroller and Auditor General's office. The broad figure is €7.5 million across the public service, including the HSE, education and local authorities.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 10: Shared Services - Management of Salary Overpayments
Appropriation Accounts 2016
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (1 Feb 2018)

Seán Fleming: No, and Ms Murphy-Fagan probably wants to keep it that way for a while. Let the HSE look after its own affairs for the time being anyway. She said that the office deals with auto-recruitment directly if it is less than five working days. Does the office have to go through local HR to put that in place?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 10: Shared Services - Management of Salary Overpayments
Appropriation Accounts 2016
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (1 Feb 2018)

Seán Fleming: Once the office gets the figure, it goes through.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 10: Shared Services - Management of Salary Overpayments
Appropriation Accounts 2016
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (1 Feb 2018)

Seán Fleming: I am going at this from the point of view of the 124,000 users, not HR. Does the NSSO communicate with the users directly rather than with HR where the communication could get stuck in the system if somebody is on holidays and has not opened his or her email?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 10: Shared Services - Management of Salary Overpayments
Appropriation Accounts 2016
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (1 Feb 2018)

Seán Fleming: Does the office get calls directly from users saying, "My pay looks a little different"? Perhaps there has been a salary change such as an increment that did they know about or the increment was late and they are wondering how the arrears were calculated.